HMS Hedingham Castle (K529)
 Hedingham Castle
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Hedingham Castle |
| Namesake | Hedingham Castle |
| Builder | John Crown & Sons |
| Laid down | 2 November 1943 |
| Launched | 30 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | August 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K529 |
| Fate | Scrapped, April 1958 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Castle-class corvette |
| Displacement | 1,010 long tons (1,030 t) (standard) |
| Length | 252 ft (76.8 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) (deep load) |
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| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 triple-expansion engine |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 99 |
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HMS Hedingham Castle was a Castle-class corvette built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship was named after Hedingham Castle in Essex. During the war Hedingham Castle served as a convoy escort.
Construction amd career
[edit]She was launched at John Crown & Sons in Sunderland on 30 October 1944. The ship was originally to have been called Gorey Castle (after Mont Orgueil in Jersey).
In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II[1] and was broken up at Granton in April 1958.
Another Castle-class corvette was originally to have been called Hedingham Castle but she was reallocated to the Royal Canadian Navy before launching and renamed HMCS Orangeville.
She plays in the film Seagulls Over Sorrento (also called Crest of the Wave) (Roy Boulting – 1954).
References
[edit]- ^ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
Bibliography
[edit]- Campbell, N. J. M. (1980). "Great Britain (including Empire Forces)". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 2–85. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Goodwin, Norman; compiled by (2007). Castle Class Corvettes: An Account of the Service of the Ships and of Their Ships' Companies. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 978-1-904459-27-9.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
